The truth is an "iceberg".

[kentuck]

It is not a mountain.

It is not a cloud.

It is not an illusion.

It is real.

To deny the truth is to go off in an unknown direction. What is unknown cannot be predicted.

It can lead to wild beasts and treacherous terrain.

It can lead to death.

There is a reason that truth is important to individuals, as well as societies.

It is a matter of survival.

[lastlib]

1. And I thought it was a fountain.....

You're saying it ISN'T??!?

(old joke.........)

[Karadeniz]

2. So true!

[kentuck]

3. It will not go away...

...if we ignore it.

[sanatanadharma]

4. And like an iceberg it has unseen depth.

One can try to chip away at the truth but it is as futile as attempting to chip away an iceberg.

[kentuck]

5. Leo Tolstoy quote:

"People usually think that progress consists in the increase of knowledge, in the improvement of life, but that isn't so. Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. The truth is always accessible to a man...because a man's soul is a divine spark, the truth itself. It's only a matter of removing from this divine spark, everything that obscures it. Progress consists, not in the increase of truth, but in freeing it from its wrappings. The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold."
Leo Tolstoy

[Karadeniz]

6. This is EXACTLY what I took from my soul experience, age 17, among other things.